assert
Example Sentences
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“I’m his wife,” I said to the on-call doctor, asserting my place in the cramped exam room.
From Los Angeles Times
They simply asserted that statistical analysis should be used as a useful tool to detect potential bias, not to prove it.
The enslaved asserted the truth the oppressors feared above all: that they were actual human beings.
"There won't be any operations if you treat us with respect, if you respect our interests just as we've always tried to respect yours," he asserted.
From BBC
In June, a U.K. tribunal upheld External link the ban; Staley asserted during the public trial that his relationship with Epstein was professional.
From Barron's
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